Quote: (03-25-2013 10:11 PM)SVK Wrote:
Quote: (03-25-2013 05:54 PM)augen sehen Wrote:
Its the next level of attention whoring for girls. Even worse than Facebook because anyone can follow you, there's no personal info revealed (unlike Facebook) and all they can do is like your photos and give you compliments.
Now I get why it got so popular so quickly. It's basically taking the worst attention-whoring features of Facebook and isolate them for maximum effect. Integrate tightly with phone's camera and add some cheap "artistic" filters. I never thought too much about Instagram, but now that I think about it the founder was fucking genius.
I could probably prototype an Instagram-level app in a month of solid focused work. Let's put our collective knowledge of hamster together and brainstorm a billion-dollar idea. Another great hamster-fueled website is Pinterest. Will think of something and report back soon...
Lessons from these two... build something simple, graphical, that allows you to share pictures (that you took or that you saw) easily and quickly. And naturally, a built-in popularity contest otherwise the hotties will never join.